{"id":412594,"date":"2010-03-10T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/14cda51debb4104c8995caf092121819"},"modified":"2010-03-10T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:35:00","slug":"article-verizon-employees-being-trained-on-nexus-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/412594","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Verizon employees being trained on Nexus One?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/3\/96226-nexusoneverizon_540.jpg\" alt=\"Verizon Wireless Nexus One\" width=\"419\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is much speculation surrounding the CDMA version of the Nexus One, which is slated to hit Verizon by Spring 2010.&nbsp; Early last week we reported that the N1 had cleared the FCC, and that sources were suggesting a March 23rd launch date (which lines up with CTIA 2010).<\/p>\n<p>BGR is now reporting (and when I say reporting, I mean sharing the rumor love) that based on a few emails exchanged between &#8220;some curious customers and some rather knowledgeable [Verizon] reps,&#8221; it&#8217;s reasonable to believe that Verizon has started training employees on the N1, and in addition to being sold online by Google, it will also be sold in Verizon retail stores.<\/p>\n<p>If the rumors are true (and I&#8217;m hesitant to say Google is ready to jump ship this early in the game), this is a considerable deviation from Google&#8217;s original plan to change the way consumers purchase cell phones.&nbsp; On the other hand, I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t mention that in recent news, Goldman Sachs reported to WSJ that: <br \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;Google&#8217;s initial sales figures were disappointing and that it is expecting Google to sell just 1 million Android-powered Nexus Ones this year. That&#8217;s down from the original 3.5 million in sales the firm first projected.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If ever there was a reason to change a plan, I suppose the prospect of failing to meet forecasted sales is a good one.&nbsp; Perhaps (and again this is assuming that the rumor is in fact true) this is Google&#8217;s way of offering an option that will please both consumers and shareholders, in an effort to eliminate any possible &#8220;disappointment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not far away from the rumored Nexus One launch date; that being said, are you gearing up to make your purchase then?&nbsp; Sound off in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boygeniusreport.com\/2010\/03\/06\/verizon-already-training-some-employees-on-nexus-one\/\" >BGR<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileburn.com\/news.jsp?Id=8924\" >MobileBurn<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lL-v0UG72RdkyIAnAuwOd220AOA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lL-v0UG72RdkyIAnAuwOd220AOA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lL-v0UG72RdkyIAnAuwOd220AOA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lL-v0UG72RdkyIAnAuwOd220AOA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/Fsu4EkU-rhs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is much speculation surrounding the CDMA version of the Nexus One, which is slated to hit Verizon by Spring 2010.&nbsp; Early last week we reported that the N1 had cleared the FCC, and that sources were suggesting a March 23rd launch date (which lines up with CTIA 2010). BGR is now reporting (and when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}